“It is no exaggeration, nor a lie, nor a fairytale to say that many people have become writers because they wanted to write Doctor Who. Here is the most hilarious thing: there are scientists who got into science because they love Doctor Who.”
“Logically, and I hesitated to apply logic to Doctor Who, regenerating younger is what Doctors should be doing.”
“you come up with a new idea
and it works, and it’s great, but you have to watch for the moment
where you’re just repeating that idea, when inspiration degrades into
reflex. It happened on every TV show I’ve ever worked on and every TV
show I’ve ever watched. You just think, ‘Hang on. We’re not doing that
because it’s new anymore, or clever, or right. We’re doing it because we
know it works’ — which, bizarrely, is sensible, but not scary or
interesting.”

“Every character trait demonstrated in that first episode you could find
in Matt Smith’s Doctor and David Tennant’s Doctor and Peter Davison’s
Doctor. They’re all there. It’s where you slide the fader. Underneath
the abrasive and difficult Peter Capaldi is, of course, a deeply lovely
man who would be your best and loyalest friend in the whole universe,
just as underneath the adorable Matt Smith Doctor, there’s a cold old
soul who, if required, can do dangerous and terrible things.”
“Doctor Who, first
of all, does blow up planets quite regularly, so it is quite dark. It is
also an early evening adventure serial so it’s also only as dark as
that. We’ve done very dark before. The 50th was very dark: he was debating genocide with himself. I think
it’s just slightly lazy journalism, dare I say? ‘We can hang it on that
peg! He’s going to be the dark one.’ The Doctor is the same amount dark
as he ever was, a man who absolutely capable of making terrible
decisions.”
“If you look back, a lot of the Smith ones were quite dark and so were a lot of the Tennant ones. The Girl Who Waited
was particularly so.
No, I think the change is more to do with pacing. Moffat seems to be
stretching his legs a bit with the script. They are taking their time,
ironing out the narratives so they are not so compressed. It is
true that Capaldi is a serious person when you talk to him and that has
come through in the way he plays the character. He is a heavyweight. You
look at him and know he does not suffer fools gladly whereas other
Doctors might have indulged them.”
Technically 11 did regenerate younger looking. Remember how old 11 looked before the new regen!
Interview looks brilliant but is behind a pay wall – hopefully some nice person will spoil Murdoch's day by scanning it.829